While it is true that the newspapers carry less weight than they used to, I think that the reason why they are now having a lessened effect on politics is that many people, just like myself and HG, can easily read what they, and others, are saying online.

Having said that, in my case, because I am a left-winger from way back, I do take the Daily record as it is a Labour paper from back in the days of the Daily Herald. ( anybody remember that ).

I think that labour and Corbyn has had such a surprising success in this election because Theresa May cocked it up in many ways and Corbyn issued a well-received manifesto.

He even started to look a bit like a statesman in the latter days of the hustings.

Yes, the Labour workings were way ahead of the Tories both in content and in modernity.

I would take issue that the young vote does not look at online politics as they are now getting to be much more politically savvy than they used to be.

The seventy-five percent of the eighteen to twenties that did turn out to vote massively supported Labour.

I have said elsewhere here that if the 16 year-olds were allowed to vote - as in Scotland in local and national elections - Corbyn and the Labour Party would have won the election outright.

The fact that May has made a poisonous deal with the Irish DUP in order to have a dodgy voting majority means that she will be tied to the coat-tails of this reactionary, bigotted and religiously-biased group who have a history with the UDA.